Gemstorm 2.0

This game is somewhere between Columns and Puyo Puyo. At the beginning, gems fall in pairs and three in a row will vanish. You need a certain number of eliminated groups to pass to the next level. Another number will give you a Not, as in Notrus. On higher levels, gems fall in larger groups, and longer rows may be needed for elimination.

According to the developers, Gemstorm will run on Windows 3.1, be enhanced on Windows 95, and look best under 64k colors or more. Actually I could see little difference between 256 colors and hi-color.

After graduating from U.C. Berkeley in December 1996, Alex Zvenigorodsky became a software engineer for Electronic Arts Maxis Studio, where he worked on SimCity 3000 and The Sims.

Steckbrief

• Authors: Alex Zvenigorodsky, John Stevens
• Year: 1997
• Country of Origin:

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• Gemstorm 2.0 (1.28MB, ZIP)

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